About the Event

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Experiences of grief and joy play an essential role in the process of spiritual awakening. In this retreat, we’ll deepen our understanding of grief and joy on the conceptual levels while we also expand our affect tolerance on the level of direct, personal experience. There will be dharma talks, experiential exercises, heart-felt discussions, and a significant amount of meditation practice in Noble Silence. In a caring, supportive learning community, we will open ourselves to the “ten thousand joys and the ten thousand sorrows” as we discover the wisdom and peace of what Sharon Salzberg has called “a heart as wide as the world.”

 

Teacher Bio

David Chernikoff has been a student of meditation since 1971. He completed the inaugural Community Dharma Leader training at Spirit Rock Meditation Center and has been teaching Insight Meditation since 1988. His teaching has been influenced by senior teachers from the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock, Tibetan teachers he studied with during a 3-year stay in Nepal, and spiritual guides from other contemplative traditions, most notably Ram Dass, Father Thomas Keating, Zen teacher Yvonne Rand, and Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. David taught meditation and psychology at Naropa University for many years and is currently one of the guiding teachers of the Insight Meditation Community of Colorado. He teaches workshops and retreats throughout the U.S. David is the author or Life, Part Two: Seven Keys to Awakening with Purpose and Joy As You Age.

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Schedule*

Friday, April 12, 2023

3:30-5:30 pm  Arrival and Registration

6:00-6:45        Dinner

6:45 – 7:30      Work Meditation 

7:30-8:15 pm    Orientation and Opening Talk/Instructions 

8:15-9:00 pm    Evening Practice 

9:00 pm            Rest or Further Practice

 

Saturday, April 13, 2023

6:30 Wake-up Bell 

7:00 Sitting Meditation 

7:30 Breakfast 

8:15-9:30 Work Meditation 

9:30 Morning Instruction (all attend) 

11:00 Walking Meditation 

11:30 Sitting Meditation 

12:00 Walking Meditation 

12:30 Lunch 

1:15 – 2:00 Work Meditation 

2:00 Sitting 

2:30 Walking Meditation / Movement (optional) 

3:15 Afternoon Instructions (all attend) 

4:15 Walking Meditation 

4:45 Sitting Meditation 

5:30 Walking Meditation 

6:00 Dinner

6:45 – 7:30 Work meditation 

7:30 dana talk by FLM then Dharma Talk by teacher (all attend) 

8:30 Walking Meditation 

9:00 Sitting Meditation 

9:30 pm   Rest or Further Practice

 

Sunday April 14, 2023

6:30 Wake-up Bell 

7:00 Sitting Meditation 

7:30 Breakfast

8:15-9:30 Work Meditation/ Room and Center Clean-up 

9:30-11:00  Sitting Meditation and Closing

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*Schedule detail subject to change, but arrival times and meals times will not change.

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Retreat Pricing & Expected Support for Teachers

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Overall cost is based on room preference. These registration costs pay for your room and meals and some of the costs it takes Flowering Lotus Meditation to continue to host phenomenal meditation Buddhist teachers in the south. Some of the costs include, but are not limited to, teacher travel. insurance, web and marketing, staff and retreat center deposits and rental, accounting, event management software, payment processing, etc.

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By selecting the highest amount you can reasonably afford, you support our ability to meet the large number of requests we receive for financial aid.

 

Benefactor

Private Room ($500) 

 

Supporter

Shared Room ($250) 

 

Supporter

Commuter ($185) (staying elsewhere attending all sessions and meals.)

 

Scholarship / Supported Rate

This represents a portion of the costs to associated to host a student for the weekend.  ($165) SHARED

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Our teachers rely sole on the generosity of the students for their livelihood.   Most Retreat Center teachers receive no compensation for teaching at Flowering Lotus Meditation. Please plan to give generously to our teachers at the end of the retreat. 

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More Information

If you have questions or need additional information about this retreat or other Flowering Lotus program offerings, please contact:

 

Beth Herzig, Executive Retreat Director

floweringlotusms@gmail.com

601-918-8510

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